Re: The birth of BASIC

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From: maus
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 07:52

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On 2018-06-02, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
> On 6/1/2018 10:22 AM, Quadibloc wrote:
>> On Friday, June 1, 2018 at 9:16:07 AM UTC-6, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
>> 
>>> I knew that, so what did I type?
>> 
>> You left out the word "Symbolic", as I thought was clear as I quoted and
>> attributed correctly: you wrote "Beginner's All Purpose Instruction Code".
>> 
>> Perhaps, too, it would be clearer as "Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction
>> Code" so that "purpose" is neither a separate word nor capitalized.
>> 
>
> ISTM that the word "BASIC" was a backronym...  meaning that they started 
> with the word BASIC and then figured out the phrase it stood for later on.
>
>
>

As I unnderstand it, too.

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